TURDUS PHEOPYGOIDES, Seebohm. 
TOBAGO WHITE-THROATED THRUSH. 
Turdus jamaicensis (nec Gm.), Jardine, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 329 (1847). 
Turdus phæopygus, pt., Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 208 (1881). 
Turdus phæopygoides, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 404 (1881). 
Тне figure of Turdus phæopygoides in the accompanying Plate was drawn under the direction of the 
late author, who thus appears to have been thoroughly convinced of the difference between this 
supposed species and T. phewopygus. I have already expressed my opinion that the Tobago bird is 
identical with the Continental form, and I believe that Seebohm himself, after an examination of 
the material at present in the British Museum, would have acquiesced in the correctness of this 
decision. 
The specimen sent to the Museum from Tobago by the late Governor Ussher was unaccom- 
panied by any note on the habits of the bird, but Mr. Kirk wrote as follows to Sir William Jardine :— 
* Utters a ‘chuck chuck’ while hopping along the ground; is particularly shy and restless ; feeds 
upon small berries and upon the seeds of the cabbage-tree." 
The following is Seebohm’s note on the distinctive characters of T. phwopygoides (Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. v. р. 404) :—* Examples from Eastern Peru (cf. Scl. € Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 754) are still 
more russet-brown than typical skins from Guiana, whilst an example from the island of Tobago is 
more olive-brown and larger in size. If the latter form be sub-specifically distinct, which must be 
conceded if the lines laid down by Neotropical ornithologists be followed, I propose to call it Turdus 
pheopygoides.” 
Taczanowski afterwards referred specimens from Eastern Peru to 7. pheopygoides (Orn. Pérou, 
i. p. 490), but he apparently knew only of the examples from Chyavetas and Chamicuros collected 
by Bartlett and now in the British Museum: these are certainly inseparable from true Zurdus 
pheopygus. Another misapprehension on Taczanowski's part appears to have been that the 
distinctive character of 7. pheopygoides consisted in the more rufous shade of the upper surface, 
whereas the contrary is the case, for Seebohm separated the Tobago bird on the strength of its 
more olive coloration, and the specimen figured in the Plate is an olive-coloured specimen from 
Venezuela in his own Collection. Іп deference to Seebohm's opinion, I have treated of 7. pheopy- 
goides as a distinct species, but I have no doubt in my own mind that it is not really separable 
from T. pheopygus. (Б. В. 5.] 
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